Inspirated

As eleven weeks of the-best-summer-ever draw to an end, here’s the final coding report for GSoC 2010.

Related Links

Summer of Code Archive	Inspirated Code
Report Guidelines	Ubuntu Wiki
Original Proposal	Ubuntu Wiki

Time Spent

60 hours.

Highlights

The week was spent mostly cleaning and packaging the code accumulated over the summer. To demonstrate some of the aspects of the Arsenal library, I also created a proof-of-concept CGI script which upstreams Launchpad attachments for a bug to a remote Bugzilla. The task was fun, as the efforts put into refactoring things into launchpadlib-toolkit and BugzillaAdapter finally paid off and it took only a few hours to get the script working (that too with most of the time spent learning AJAX).

Concerns

None.

Waiting Items

None.

Stalled Items

None.

Accomplishments

• Branch, Merge Revision:
  • Revision: Added support for quilt.
  • Revision: Added support for using patch utility for quilt packages where the diff files update debian/* stuff themselves.
  • Revision: Cleaned up the library to provide LaunchpadApplication and LaunchpadBugzillaApplication.
  • Revision: Fixed BugPatcher to use LaunchpadApplication as base class.
  • Revision: Cleaned up LaunchpadBugzillaApplication to take username password as arguments instead of modifiers.
• Branch, Merge Revision: Fixed packaging issues to release debs for Karmic and Lucid.
• Branch: Implemented a CGI script demonstrating the upstreaming capabilities of Arsenal library. An example run can be seen in this screencast.

Minor Tasks

• Revision: Some more code cleanup.
• Revision: Check launchpadlib version before appending ‘/beta‘ during API URL detection.

Actions for the Following Report

• Fill the final evaluation.
• Write a summary of the overall GSoC experience.
• Start waiting for the t-shirt.

Tags: AJAX, API, Arsenal, Bugzilla, Code, Curl, Debian, GSoC, Launchpad, Open Source, Python, REST, Ubuntu, XML-RPC